>a schoolteacher and underemployed toymaker live here

it was the 90s! glorious times

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>>89485437
They even made it look smaller in All Grown Up.

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>A marsupial that works in a comic shop lives here

I kind of wonder how much does he get payed.

>>89485437
Remember when a millionaire could afford butlers?

>>89485490
900 dollary doos an hour

Why is their house adobe

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>annual income of $20000

>>89485540
They live in the south west?
>>89485348
Maybe Stu made some serious cash off his copyrights.
That bubble machine seems like something a company would shill hard in a poorly made infomercial.
And he made a fucking mech that one time.

>>89485576
wait hold the fuck up, they have a ROOM above their garage? Jesus fuck.

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>>89485576
>$20 000
>I make that much scrubbing toilets

>>89485516
What is the current exchange rate between dollary doos and red-blooded, God fearing American dollars?

In the later seasons you'd see his reptar wagons being sold whenever they went to a toystore, so Stu was apparently a lot more successful than the show liked to emphasize.

>>89485822
30%, give or take.

>>89485903
That tends to be the case for contracted workers like I assumed he was.

>>89485903
I figure most of that money went to paying off their mortage and what was left was enough to let them live more comfortably but not enough for them to have money to burn

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>>89485786
you're a sucker

>>89485576
Yeah, try again. The average annual salary for a nuclear technician is over $80,000. Maybe it was $20,000 in 1989.....

https://www.bls.gov/ooh/life-physical-and-social-science/nuclear-technicians.htm

>>89485903
>>89485942
they fucking rape them in taxes though
that episode where he and drew were going over his expenses and just frustratedly trying to figure his taxes out.. y'know, usually cartoons exaggerate how bad grownup tax problems are, but in his case, a self-employed toymaker, that was 100% accurate.

>>89485969
You really think Mr. Burns actually pays his employees well? >>89485961

>>89485607
He was trying to start his own toy company but he could have been living off earlier patents.
Like you said, Stu seemed to know more about building machines than designing toys. Maybe it was the challenge of it that appealed to him, because he clearly took his real talents for granted.
But maybe he was living off previous successes?

>>89485969
burns isn't the type to pay a decent wage, and that episode was from the mid 90s
>>89485611
that's not a luxurious thing.. those rooms are there basically to torture guests.
however, in this case, it's BEHIND the garage. that's their den. it's on the house maps but almost never comes up in the show.

>>89486000
they have a really good union

>>89485348
>>89485472
>Garage swapped sides

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>>89485516

>>89486060
DENTAL PLAN!

>>89485348

Don't worry, the economy is fine!

>>89485958
That or they just chose to save more

>>89486068
Stu has autism

>>89486106
Lisa needs braces!

>>89485961
>I get payed more than Homer

I feel like I just accomplished something here.

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>>89485961
That works out to about $25,000 annually. In Springfield OR in the mid 90s that would have easily allowed them to afford such a house.

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>>89486245
Springfield is in North Tacoma, you silly goose

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>>89486319
I didn't realize Homer was obese. I thought he was just overweight

>>89485490
To be fair, that doesn't look like a very big house, and O-Town is a shitty city that probably doesn't have very stellar property values. The only "luxury" separating it from a rental house appears to be the garage.

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>>89486040
>>89485969
>>89485576
>>89486000

>>89485607
>They live in the south west?
It was said a few times that they were in Florida.

>>89486068
what if they added on a second garage, and the original is just out of view in that picture

>>89487410
who the hell needs two garages

>>89486319
>>89486405
Im 5'10 and 257 pounds. Fuck me.

>>89486068
the garage was on the wrong side in the first episode of rugrats, which is what op's pic is from

>>89485348
Wait, that's what she did for a living?

>>89487469
Stu, for storing all his toy concepts and killer robots

>>89485348
I thought Stu got royalty feels from the Reptar Company after making the successful Reptar Wagon and a series of mechs

>>89487806
Whoops, fees* not feels

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>>89485348
how the fuck does he stay afloat?
he pretty much depends on the odd festival to even make a profit

>>89487832
>tfw no royalty feels

>>89487852
turns tricks on the side

>>89485348
some of the shit stu made bordered brilliant scientist
like the time he made a voice changer that could make you sound like your parent

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>>89487375
>>89485607
Rugrats is set in Southern California. The California Republic flag shows up multiple times throughout the franchise.

>>89488005
didnt one episode take place in a movie studio?

>>89487852
The guy he leases from likes his burgers and cuts him slack.

>>89488021
I think it was a television studio.

I've had friends who grew up in Southern California at the same time the show was on and they seem to like the show way more than most. I wonder if Rugrats is the lightweight King of the Hill for 90s SoCal kids.

>>89488059
yeah, thats not enough
rent is a big expense but so is running a restaurant and raising 3 kids

>>89488072
rugrats was once the most popular nick cartoon, why do you think it got 2 movies and a spinoff?
i was thinking, maybe the town it takes place in could be trackable or at least the most possible one if it doesnt exist

>>89487852
He's always struggling. I wouldn't say he's "staying afloat" as much as he's "drowning and getting the occasional gasp of air".

Only a matter of time before he realizes he will never afford college for the kids and offs himself.

Do you even watch the show?

>>89485348

Weren't they living in Stu's dad's (Grandpa's) house?

>>89487610
You can get better, Anon. I believe in you.

>>89488177
well yeah but its surprising he even made it that far
id ont think the kids will be too interested in college to be honest, maybe tina but she will have to settle for community college

>>89485348
To be fair Stu probably lives from patent of his best invention from assembly machines, to the fucking Reptar animatronic, he probably makes a decent amount of money to live comfortably while he works on his new toy, he actually have a pretty sweet life maybe that why Drew is such a dick he can bear the fact that his brother can be succesful while slacking

>>89488243
drew is a dick because his daughter is a brat and his wife is too busy to fuck him
all grown ups should have them divorced and also have the twins dad dead because im a morbid fuck and thats the best you could get out of that character

>>89488151
Oh I know it was super popular. But I'm saying friends from Southern California seemed to connect with it even more. Or at least have memories of connecting with it more. That's just my own anecdotal evidence though.

And I wouldn't be surprised if Rugrats takes place in the Valley. A lot of shows and movies just make up fake towns in the Valley that are based on a bunch of towns around there.

From what I remember its location remained pretty solid. It's not like something like Arthur where the town drifts according to plot or being cornered by continuity.

>>89488177
>Parents paying for your college
People do this?

>>89488195
Nah the opposite, Grandpa was living with them before he moved to a retirement community.

>>89488236
Louise will take over the resuraunt, maybe take a trade school cooking course.

Tina will settle for community college, get an AA, and end up in a comfortable, if a bit underpaid, job.

Gene will write a huge hit for an artist but go deep in debt making unwise purchases and will end up getting a sexual reassignment on Bob's dime.

>>89488309
Only coddled spoiled fuckups who will never aspire to anything

>>89488309
>having shitty parents

I can tell you will be shit parent.

>>89487610
>Im 5'10 and 257 pounds. Fuck me.
Don't expect a long line

>>89485490
bad neighborhood so low property value also he probably is up to eyeballs in debt.

>>89485576
>I make more a year than the entire simpsons family
What the fuck I don't even have a good job and Homer is a nuclear technician

>>89488309
My parents couldn't pay for a state university even if they wanted to, but they still helped my sister and i out by kicking in a little cash for rent or food.

>>89488390
gene will probably become a neet or have a very low demanding job for too long while living with his parents
he probabl will get his shit together later in life, around his late 20s

>>89488309
My Grandma helped my younger sister with her State College.

But my mom told her that I'm autistic so I doubt she expects much from me, thus would never extend the same. She basically thinks I'm non-intelligible and will die assuming I'll be on tugboat bucks the rest of my life. Every birthday card is a "Good job grandson guy" giving me that attaboy.

No thousand dollar loans or assistance for me.
God I hope she isn't right.

>>89485348
if california teachers unions are anything like chicago teachers unions then Didi is making at least $60k/yr, and gets half the year off

>>89485969
Homer struggled to buy his family a new TV in the early 90s, and pirated basic cable because it was too expensive

>>89485472
Things from your childhood always look smaller in adulthood.

>>89485348
>>89485472
This can be easily explained by the house seeming like it was bigger when Tommy was a kid, but us seeing it was actually kind of small when he's in his pre-teens.

Haven't you guys ever had that happen? Where you remember something being bigger because you were smaller?

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>>89488784
>Where you remember something being bigger because you were smaller?
It's not just that you remember it being bigger, when you're smaller your eyes are closer together and because of the stereoscopic effect things actually LOOK bigger. When you're older you're eyes are farther apart, so they look smaller.

>>89488885
Then how come things don't look bigger if I press my eyes together? Hmmmm?

>>89488966
You have to press harder and recall memories from your childhood, like your uncle's secret movie studio

>>89488966
Because your eyes are set in your skull, you can't make them closer

>>89489038
But if my eyes are in my skull, how am I not seeing any bone? Hmmmmmmmmmmm?

>>89485472
>All shrunk down

>>89485576
There's an episode where Homer burns $1000 dollars, then says "don't worry, I make SIX of these a year.

>>89485490
Otown is supposed to be Chicago. That wouldn't be to hard to afford on the south side.

>>89489294
Well, he's not wrong

>>89488005
The show started just after they moved from Akron, Ohio though. It's mentioned a few times that Stu and Drew grew up in Cleveland, and the shop that Lou owned was on Euclid Ave.

>>89485490
That was a small 1 bedroom 1 bathroom house. He might only rent it too.

>>89486141
I don't know why that made me laugh.

>>89485611
Didn't Lisa and her English fiance live in that before the (failed) wedding back in 2010?

>>89489336
>south side chicago

Rocko isn't set in a warzone tho

>>89488402
Savage

>>89486405
they redefined obesity later so that everyone's obese and almost nobody is overweight.
what's weird to me is the 6-feet aspect. homer has always been depicted as pretty short. he can't even see over the fridge. a real 6-foot guy who's 239 is doin' fine.. maybe a bit overweight, but maybe a lot of it's muscle.

>>89488309
Yeah, my parents saved enough for 3 kids to go a four year in-state university without debt.

>>89488177
good? his kids won't ruin their lives going into debt

>>89485576
Grandpa Simpson sold his house to pay for it.

>>89490197
>what's weird to me is the 6-feet aspect. homer has always been depicted as pretty short. he can't even see over the fridge.
I dunno about you but my fridge is at least 6 feet tall

>>89490197
He lied.

In most places I'm fairly certain you just fill in your height on a form for your license, it's not like they actually check. I work in a place where we have to check IDs for some stuff and I've seen all kinds of stupid shit people put down. A guy who was clearly no taller than 5'5" put down that he was 6'2".

>>89485348
Grampa lived there too, it may have been his.

>>89486319
Dang Homer will be 61 in a couple months

>>89486181
DENTAL PLAN!

>>89488177
>Only a matter of time before he realizes he will never afford college for the kids and offs himself.
He used Gene's college fund on the food truck and then used either Tina's/Louise's/both on the repairs after Gene blew it up.

>>89485969
>>89486000
>>89488749
While the Simpsons can vary wildly in depiting how it portrays how tight Homer's money situation is (it basically fluctuates to suit the writers' needs), it would make most sense to think Homer is probably slightly underpaid for a nuke tech since Burns is a greedy fuck. He probably makes around $60,000 a year, which after taxes and the fact that he is the only source of income for the household explains perfectly well why the money situation for the Simpson family can get pretty tight. You try to pay a mortgage, feed 5 mouths and a dog, property taxes and miscellaneous expenses with what amounts to maybe $40,000 in net income and not be hard-up for cash.

>>89486319
Isn't class c license pretty much anything below a crane?

>>89486319
49007 is a Zip code in MI

what did they mean by this?

>>89485348
>Implying that isn't totally obtainable with that amount of income, especially in the 90's.

>>89490664
>Although the exact specifications of a Class C license vary from state to state, it typically allows drivers to operate vehicles with a Gross Vehicle Weight Rating of 26,000 pounds or more, while transporting 15 or more people or hazardous waste. A Class C license is also needed for towing vehicles under 10,000 pounds.

>>89490664
He's also the chief safety engineer (or whatever his title was) at a major nuclear power plant. Homer Simpson is the definition of what's wrong with America.

>>89490787
Nuclear power plants aren't exactly typical of America

>>89490787
He's not a chief anything. He's a nuke tech that babysits a reactor all day.

>>89485961

>bear patrol tax

finally, tax dollars well used

>>89486405
>6 ft, 185 pounds is overweight
Wat

>>89490801
There are a fair number of nuclear power plants in the US, they just became less popular around the 1980's onwards because of fear mongering. Plenty of plants built in the 1970's are still operational today.

>>89488305
Doesn't it snow in wherever they are though?

>>89490815
In the Grimey episode one of the primary plot points was that Homer had a fairly important supervisor position despite having no qualifications whatsoever, because he showed up the day the plant opened and asked for a job.

>>89490801
Reign in your autism and realize that you can draw parallels between situations without exact details matching up.

>>89487852

I mean they address this every Goddamn episode
restaurants aren't profitable

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>>89490773
huh thats the most informative thing anyone has ever said to me on 4chan.
Thanks anon

>>89487348
why

>>89490581
Lisa needs braces!

>>89490925
Homer's exact job description and the actual importance of his job tends to depend on who is writing him, so take all info gleamed from the show with a grain of salt.

>>89490910
3 mile island really did help the image of nuke plants, which is a shame. If they had been able to keep a positive image through out the 80's and 90's the market might be interested in investing in thorium plants but hey why use the updated version of evil nuclear energy.

>>89490925
>>89491033
Also
>Supervisors
>Being qualified for anything ever

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>>89485490
>pink '90s wave on the garage door

>>89491085
Fucking this.
I work in television and all supervisors are either just assholes from sales that wanted to get "creative" or unimaginative ass kissers who don't go out side the lines. Im doomed to be a editor forever.

>>89490676
probably where the guy drawing that cel came from
something like 1/4 of all random numbers you see in fiction are subtle shout outs

>>89491051
Yeah it's a total shame. But at least in the US or energy costs are low anyway because we have cheap and readily available coal and natural gas, which are relatively clean with modern technology. We didn't pull a Germany and abandon all our nuclear plants while having no other means of domestic energy production other than burning tons of foreign coal or just buying power from somewhere else, in a nation which already had some of the highest energy costs per person in Europe.

At least based France didn't let the baby-killing nuclear meme get to them, their whole country relies solely on nuclear power and they make a killing selling their surplus energy.

>>89486405
i feel like this chart was tampered with and everything was moved up.

im apparently overweight, but i look at other guys who are like 220lbs+ and they all look like they are 300-500lbs atypical fat guys.

>>89490787
That is in fact the joke.
The joke is that he is a horrible person in every sense of the word except morally (and he slips on the morals sometimes but he always comes around by the end of the episode). It's supposed to mock sitcom dads but no one has given a shit about sitcoms in like 8 or 10 years so no one gets it.
Married with Children did something like this but it was actually confined to the era it came from instead of continuing indefinitely.

Man, I shudder to think what would have happened if someone had come up with the idea for the Flintstones around the time The Simpsons started instead of in the '50s.

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>A factory worker and his family living in Rhode Island own this

>>89487852
The show always says they're struggling and are basically poor but I never got that impression, they never really struggle for things like food and stuff. Then again that could just be Linda being smart about their money.

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>>89491471
Speaking of Married With Children, how the hell does a guy working at a shoe store in the mall afford this?

>>89491665
Foodstuffs aren't that expensive if you budget correctly and buy generic brands.

>>89491598
It was built upon a ancient indian burial ground so it was dirt cheap

>>89491937

Wasn't it also not part of the US, or any nation?

>>89488309
they do on TV
I don't think I've ever met anyone that successfully did this, maybe one or two families
a lot of people try though, my mom tried briefly

It's because nearly NO show focuses on money as a factor in the scheme of things. Most characters scrape by enough to keep standard levels, so they're not kicked out of their house, but more often than not the Simpson can afford to take random vacations LITERALLY anywhere they feel like & not be super-affected by it. When you don't have to think about where the money comes from (usually cause its a kid's show), you never need to worry about why they don't have enough or why they have only enough to do what they feel like.

>>89492010
they seemed to imply that he signed a treaty that folded them back into either the US proper or forces Petoria to function like a normal American household for all intents & purposes

>>89488301
ol' pointy hair... fuck, I forgot all about him
what a waste
they could've had the twins being raised by a single mom that marries Chaz but then acts like nothing happened and it all would've been mostly the same

>>89490499
this
everyone supposedly does it for their weight, why not their height too?

>>89492010
Wouldn't that make it extremely valuable to tax dodgers?

>>89492333
Chaz got that nice waifu in real laifu though

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>>89487852

They do occasionally make deals with their landlord to do odd-ended "jobs" in exchange for free rent. Even if it's just a month or two, that's probably just enough to help them pays bills to prevent anything from being repossessed. Not only that but I don't think the Belchers really buy much. They don't go to see movies or out to eat very often and the kids don't really ask for anything outside. Tina wanting to take horse riding classes is the only thing I can really think of any of them asking for something that wasn't for their birthday or Christmas.

And speaking of houses....How does a fry cook afford at 1 bedroom 1 bathroom house?

>>89492494
>Implying Peter would be smart enough to organize a tax shelter.

>>89490658
anyone else here get real sick of "The Simpson family is in a dire financial situation" plots back in the day, cause it felt like they overused that scenario a lot in the middle seasons

honestly if I ever did a Cartoon Sitcom I'd just have the main family be rich to avoid those kind of plots

>>89485348

Stu was also a genius engineer, he probably got paid well when he managed to get bigger projects like the reptar robot.

>>89485348

Maybe its in Cleveland

>>89492561
There are no taxes on owning fruit.

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>>89491719
a few possibilities
- it's in one of the more rural parts of the suburbs
- he got it cheap when the neighborhood was shittier/less desirable
- blah blah mortgage blah blah don't worry about it, I worry about it enough
- he inherited it
- he scammed someone out of it
- the shoe store is a front for a narcotics and prostitution ring, that's why he always comes home zonked out and cupping his balls

>>89491719
Trickle Down Economics

>>89492561
he had it before he got the fry cook job
my guess is it was a gift from his parents, somehow, because they couldn't stand having him around any more

>>89492719
He lives in Chicago and his neighbor is a lawyer, even if he bought it cheap and the area isn't that good he still makes what is essentially minimum wage and is the only source of income for his family.

>>89490908
BMI is fucked. But only if you have a lot of muscle.

>>89488309
Oh it's you again, yes dude, you just have shitty parents, accept it

>>89492561
He lived there before he got a job

>>89492875
wouldn't be out of character for them, they got him a brand new boatmobile when he got his license, seemed like a pretty sweet ride too

>>89485961
>those taxes

DAMN IMMIGANTS

>>89485348
>Nancy Reagan and Lyndon Johnson live here

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>>89485348
>tfw Chas Finster's house is probably paid by life insurance

>>89493666
Do you think he did it?

>>89487610
Post pics.

>>89489487
I never caught that! That's actually pretty interesting to me.

>>89493894
She did it.

>>89492561
I lived in a flat above an old couples shop when i was in collage.
They charged me almost nothing for rent because would fix something if it broke, everything from the roof to there dinosaur computer.
Also I guess they liked having a big intimidating guy just upstairs if one of there costumers got rowdy.

>>89491598
Do you know how fucking cheap parts of Rhode Island, especially in the Providence suburbs, are?

>>89494500
>collage
>costumers

So it was a crafts shop?

>>89486405
That is either for women or a fake chart. 5'9 at 175 in HS and I was skinny lanky as fuck, 190 second year in college and buff. No way would I have been anything but bones at under 125.

>>89487740
They had a basement for that.

>>89487957
Didn't he make a remote controlled flying baby stroller in one of the first episodes?

>>89491598
They bought the house with the money they got for suing a condom company over a faulty product when Lois got pregnant with Chris. Learn your lore

>>89490922
It snows in parts of So Cal.

I mean if it's possible if you live in a state that's not California.

>>89493894
Didn't they imply in a flash back she had cancer?

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>>89493894
chuckie found where they kept their gun

>>89496558
WHY DOES MY STATE CONSISTENTLY COME FIRST IN METH ABUSE AND TODDLER CRIME?!

>>89491719
the name of this show confused me so much when I was a kid, I thought it literally meant they were married to children

>>89496679
It confused me because of the way the "with children" is added on the title. I thought it was a sequel to a previous series simply named "Married"

>>89486319
>DOB 05-12-56
>Homer H. Simpson was 36 in 1992
>is 61 in 2017

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>A news reporter for some type of print media and a florist own this house.
>>89496517
She was shot.

>>89486405
>6 foot 10 is barely underweight at 110 pounds
bullshit
Somebody get /fit/ in here

>>89485490
>comic shop
I thought he was a phone sex operator?

>>89488784
I hope this is the case, it would be a nice touch.
>>89488309
>Parent not able to pay for my college
>Its all right mom I got a full ride
Feels good to do something right for once.
>>89488394
>>89488401
>>89493070
College is filled with spoiled brats. I've met many people who've said things like "I don't care if I fail out of school my parents are paying for it". Its a lot more common than you'd think. However, its also important for a parent to provide a college fund if possible, or maybe just give your kid the skills so that they can get scholarships/ good job while they are in school.

>>89496638
Times are tough, sometimes a toddler has to turn to meth dealing.

>>89488402
Fucking kek.

>>89495887
Stu may not have a steady paycheck but he damn sure made his share of stuff along with a few incomplete projects. The basement was his workshop too so he had to make room for new things as well

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>>89486040
>>89485611
It's the bathroom stupid.

>>89492875
> because they couldn't stand having him around any more
In the episode where sponge bob loses his house there is a scene indicating that they want him to move back in.

>>89485348
Stu's dad owned the house. In an episode where they try to kick him out he reminds them that he holds the deed.

>>89494434
underrated post

>>89497255
but thats not right at all

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfXxoSuXB0A

look where the bathroom is

>>89492614
>honestly if I ever did a Cartoon Sitcom I'd just have the main family be rich to avoid those kinds of plots

So a cartoon version of The Nanny?

>>89497234
And he had a contract for designing stuff for Reptar merchandise.

So he may have not been as flush as a CEOs husband but he was comfortable.

>>89497061
>tfw 6'2 385 lbs and still can fit in a 1x shirt

BMI is more important than just weight. Most people my weight are literal blobs of fat that can barely walk.

>>89497050
Well that's not so crazy, it's not like they live in a major city.

>>89490925
>In the Grimey episode one of the primary plot points was that Homer had a fairly important supervisor position despite having no qualifications whatsoever, because he showed up the day the plant opened and asked for a job.

That always bothered me, it completely discounts the value of on the job training and experience. Yes we're talking about Homer Simpson and we all know he's a moron, but is it really so crazy for someone who started in an entry level position to learn the ropes and then move up in an organisation without a lot of formal qualifications? Hell, in Germany and Switzerland they have specific programmes for employers to partner with educational institutions to train up their workers on the job.

>>89485348
>>89485490

It was a buyers market

>>89497580
Hasn't the master bedroom always been on the left side of the house like the picture? Cant trust the zombie simpsons crew to get anything right

easy mortgage lending

>>89487469
>>89487410
>>89486068
>Garage
Oh la la, excuse me, mr fancy frenchman. Heh, "Garage".

>>89497611
Maybe, haven't seen that show in years, I'll admit I was thinking more Beverly Hillbillies when I said that

>>89497916
Not taking 15 and 30 year home lones. Those are for saps.

>>89485490
To be fair, Rocko rented.

>>89497255
>No hidden room not accessible with normal means
bit disappointed 2bh

>>89490903
well do you see any bears around?

>>89496638
They don't call it
>methzou
for nothing

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>>89497639
They live in Acme Acres, what more do you want.

Anyway...

>A army supervisor executive and a librarian own this house, also the neighbor to the red and light blue house to the left.

>>89491125
Is there an actual term for that and other 90's designs?

>>89485576
There's a video somewhere that says Homer makes around $38k.

Also, tax cuts for three children, maybe some help from Abe's GI Bill.

>>89495310
Chuckl'd

>>89497193
Why are you Gringos so fucked with college debt?
Don't you guys have scholarships?

>>89487852
I'm more worried about the literally hundreds of independent exterminators who all compete in the same town. Man,that's gotta be rough.

The city also seems to breed some pretty terrible entrepreneurs, based on the vacant building next door constantly opening and closing.

>>89489504
>not counting the ballroom

>>89487852
Mr. Fischoeder is frequently having to cut deals because his properties are unsafe, he's caused some calamity, or he needs a favor. Even assuming Bob can get payouts from having a mechanical shark eat his basement or being almost murdered by Felix, he's portrayed as always struggling to make ends meet. If the rent hike actually happened, he'd be boned; but he was able to talk Mr. Fish out of it.

Linda also juggles their debts and checks to make sure they can always afford the meat and keep the lights on. They don't eat burgers every day and what they often eat upstairs looks really generic or bland in comparison; cheap. They don't ever really go out and do things, and every character seems to have their own discretionary fund of between 80 and 500 bucks hidden away over the years.

They also don't pay the kids, and have celebrity endorsement from Skip Maroosh, plus they're probably a little youtube relevant from Beefsquatch. Bob has friends and contacts in a lot of walks of life who could help him out; The One Eyed Snakes for auto stuff, his rich tiki friend if he really got in a bind, Teddy for most house things (friends and family rate, maybe free now given Teddy's increased dependence and best friend status), Mort for a death and transportation that one time.

Bob is able to struggle and survive because he's got good contacts and a great product. He'll never be what he deserves to be, but he has enough preventing him from going under. Tina and Gene don't have college funds anymore, and Louise probably never had one due to her age.

If he lost the people in his life that help him get by, he'd be in a shitty shitty place.

>>89489563
No, they lived in an upstairs annex that homer built
remember he fell through the floor and into manure

>>89499174
A lot of scholarships don't reach the kids who need them, or they're part of a shared lot. Race and gender can play a roll in it too, but I once got 57 bucks out of what was advertised to me as a 15k scholarship due to my race; so I'm a little lenient on saying that they're better off. Even with the four scholarships I did end up getting, I still am in debt. Not egregious debt, but still about 2-3 years of living at college kid levels of cost to pay fully off.

There's also a huge problem with opportunity cost. What it takes to get certain good scholarships might prevent you from getting more reasonable but more widely applied for scholarships.

Really if you want to benefit from the most it helps to be female, of some racial status in addition to white, and to have had one family member in the military and another having done fire/police/teach. Broad scholarships allow for those with direct relatives to gain those without much more beyond an essay.

It ain't a great system and prices are often too damn high for crappy educations we were told we needed to get jobs which are rarely there.

>>89485961
So Homers weekly pay is 479.60 as of 1996, coming in at a touch under 25k per year

Todays equivalent would be 732.72, or just over 38k per year

>>89499353
>this entire fucking post
What the fuck! Here in BRlândia all I had to do to get a full ride was take the national high school exam and not be a blithering retard, I didn't even placed that well.

>>89499259
>I'm more worried about the literally hundreds of independent exterminators who all compete in the same town. Man,that's gotta be rough.
Maybe they create their own infestations just so they have an opportunity to deal with them

>>89485969
It's a cartoon you fucking moron

>>89491665
>they never really struggle for things like food and stuff
They're a goddamn burger joint.

>>89491719
It doesn't look that bad from the outside, but believe me, the inside is a warzone, teetering on the edge of falling apart and killing everybody in their sleep because a raindrop hit it in just the right spot

>>89497061
that's 110 KILOGRAMS
that's roughly 242 lbs.

how big is it? bout 10m x 8m excluding garage. thats fucking tiny. 160 m2 for both stories and what looks tk be about 400m2 of land. you could live in that on an $80k combined salary, less because its america, so about $60k

>>89499088
That particular pattern is called "jazz"

>>89497255
They have a 4 bed 2.5 bath house on one man's salary? Fucking Homer, man. He gets all the luck.

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It's a pretty small house, a "Ranch Style Rambler" thats only got one floor, Im trying to remember if theres any episode where they show if theres a basement.

>>89500448
No basement as far as I can remember, their storeroom was ground level so I dobut there's a basement.

Also, they portrayed Hank as making a fairly low income but managing his money very, very well in that episode where Bobby thought he was rich. He certainly lived an appropriate lifestyle for his budgets

>>89500766
yeah, but Hank pays sticker price

>>89485576
Burns makes sure the property values stay low in the town so he can pay his employees beans.

>>89485576
>>89485348
Is poverty in the USA now so rampant that those cookie cutter houses in shitty subburbs are seen as luxury?

>all that genZ trash that can't even understand life cost was different 20 years ago.
>Or that people with real middle class jobs can easily get a loan for such a house.
It takes efforts to be this ignorant.

>>89501038
Yes.
That's pretty much exactly how it is now.

Also, older people here can't seem to work out why younger people today aren't buying houses and are moving back in with their parents, but those of us who don't can barely afford to rent with what is essentially double minimum wage, which they then act like we're spoiled for getting.

>>89487852
What I want to know is how long have they even been open. All three kids are present at the "Grand Opening" yet they act like they've been living there and Bob's been working there forever.

What was he doing between Big Bob's and Bob's Burgers?

>>89501078
I wouldn't advise getting a loan on a house these days with the prices. I keep seeing people my age with mountains of student loans and multiple kids, making less than 20k a year and then taking out loans for cars and houses they can't actually afford because it's what their parents did ~20 years ago without mountains of debt, with lower gas prices, and when houses that size were a fraction of what they were before.

They're all in for a rude awakening when it finally sinks in that just how much better their parents had it compared to them.

>>89501078
Whoa there old man
I didn't realize the nursing home had wifi

>>89488767
wew

>>89500766

There is an episode where bobby wants to find a cool place to hang out in the house, and they try the attic and the crawl space.

>>89489504
Didn't every single room get turned into a bathroom?

>>89499088
Google "The Memphis Group" to see where the 90's got it's weird obsession with bright, clashing colors and primitive shapes.

>>89491598
>divo
it isnt part of the us, its technically a third world country
peter is a moron he could have made a fortue offering a fiscal heaven

>>89498517
they have a secret dimension behind some furniture

>>89488309
Only when they plan ahead long before even conceiving their children.

>>89488177

I'd swear to god I saw an episode where he'd already come to terms with the fact that Gene was never going to college, and spent the money on some stupid bullshit for him.

can anyone compare johns house in garifelds and friends from the 3d garfield?

>>89485969
>>89485576
I remember an episode where someone said something about $60k and Homer compared it to his yearly income.

>>89499704
Oh fuck I didn't even see that. Thanks for having my back senpai

>>89498042
well what do you call it anon?

>>89501155

If the theme song is correct there have been a number of "Grand Openings"

>>89488005
>Basement
>On the west coast

The animators were in Burbank. They should know why we don't have them.

>>89486319
>North Tacoma
Listening to the Simpsons commentary is hilarious. Matt constantly references that they live in North Tacoma.

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For the attic being such an integral part of the show, it didn't have an established entrance until the final few episodes of season 4.

>>89486319
Springfield in the show is supposed to be in Oregon according to Groening. Who presumably would know more about the details of the Simpsons world than anyone else.

>>89485348
When the show started the economy was WAY better and housing was much more affordable. Middle class houses actually used to look like that.

>>89500448
houses in texas generally don't have basements. The soil is hard as fuck, water level problems etc

>>89485348
Lous' SSI probably pays a fair amount of bills.

>>89505861
Better than today, maybe but there was a bit of a depression in 91'. It's one of the reasons Bill Clinton beat GHW Bush who might otherwise have been re-elected: "It's the economy, stupid". That, and Ross Perot splitting the republican vote. Speaking of Perot, his warnings about Nafta were portentous, and that agreement back to haunt america by ushering mr trump into office.

>>89500382

There's a reason why Grimes described the place as a "palace"

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>An unemployed Dog-Cat abomination owns this